NJPW Announces Full Group Blocks for G1 Climax 2023

Saturday’s New Japan Road event for New Japan Pro Wrestling in Chiba, Japan, featured the official announcement of the full block groups for this year’s G1 Climax 2023 tournament.

This year’s tournament will take place from July 15th to August 13th in Japan and the winner to earn a title shot for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship at next year’s Wrestle Kingdom 18 event.

In regards to changes for this year’s tournament, it was announced that the official time limit for block matches will now be twenty minutes instead of the traditional thirty minutes. It was also announced that this year’s tourament will also feature the top two from each block advancing to a quarterfinals round.

A Block:

• SANADA
• Chase Owens
• Hikuleo
• Ren Narita
• Shota Umino
• Yota Tsuji
• Gabe Kidd
• Kaito Kiyomiya

B Block:

• Kazuchika Okada
• YOSHI-HASHI
• Taichi
• KENTA
• Great-O-Khan
• Will Ospreay
• Tanga Loa
• El Phantasmo

C Block:

• David Finlay
• Tomohiro Ishii
• EVIL
• Tama Tonga
• Shingo Takagi
• Aaron Henare
• Eddie Kingston
• Mikey Nicholls

D Block:

• Hiroshi Tanahashi
• Tetsuya Naito
• Hirooki Goto
• Zack Sabre Jr.
• Toru Yano
• Jeff Cobb
• Shane Haste
• Alex Coughlin